Automotoy | UnCaged Toy Piano Festival
Automotoy showcases a variety of works incorporating mechanical musical instruments with live performers, as well as John Cage‘s Music for Amplified Toy Pianos.
Wednesday, December 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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A Ceremony of Carols
Katie Agocs
The Boys of Saint Thomas Choir presents Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols along with other works by Bach, Ireland, Hadley, and Agócs.
Thursday, December 14 at 5:30 PM
Tickets $40
St. Thomas Church, 5th Avenue at West 53rd Street, New York, NY
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Mechanical Toys | UnCaged Toy Piano Festival
Phyllis Chen
As part of ICE‘s residency at the Abrons Arts Center, UnCaged Fest closes with an event featuring the winning works from the UnCaged::Conlon Keyboard Prize featuring works for the Robot Toy Piano. The program includes works for live-coding pianist by Anne Veinberg/Felipe Ignacio Noriega (winners of the the 2017 Keyboard Prize); Keychain by Christina Oorebeek for toy piano, robot toy piano and disklavier; and PRAGMA by UnCaged runner-up Stefano Alessandretti for robot toy piano and live-electronics.
Thursday, December 14 at 8:00 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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OpenICE at Abrons Art Center
ICE presents the world premiere of Wojtek Blecharz’s Music for Invisible Places, an OpenICE commission, at Abrons Art Center. Berlin-based Blecharz, who has workshopped the piece over several installations with ICE at Abrons, is a polyglot performer with long experience in intermedia. The new, transporting work, for a subset of ICE, is ideally suited to the open performance spaces at Abrons.
Friday, December 15 at 8:00 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Unsilent Night
This pioneering work of public sound art debuted in Greenwich Village in 1992 and is today a tradition that has been celebrated in 100+ cities across five continents. Kline’s electronic soundscape is played by the audience on boomboxes—and amplified phones—carried through city streets. Each participant simultaneously plays one of 4 composed tracks, together creating a joyous noise on foot.
Sunday, December 17 at 6:00 PM
Free
The Arch in Washington Square Park, New York, NY
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